#Game Makes Computer Crash

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mortal wolf
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Will there be a fix to the game crashing my computer? Just wanted to know if there was an update as I'd really love to play it but I'm missing out on a lot of things such as the Little Lars update. 😦

tiny schooner
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same issue here, a friend has had to refund the game because they can't finish a single match, the game always crashes their entire computer, no blue screen, they recently swapped their entire computer except for GPU and drives, and it's still happening

no other game is crashing for them, tried a bunch, but it only happens with FvF

latent thicket
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Kinda frustrating that there are no updates regarding this at all. The game being completely unplayable should be a priority bug...

latent thicket
vale scaffold
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its a new game, theyll figure it out, takes time tofix every crash

tiny schooner
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it'd be nice if they at least acknowledged it tbh

vale scaffold
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can't acknowledge everything

wind halo
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Just wanna +1 this happening to me, swapped around my ram sticks and had no issues yesterday but it has been continuely crashing my entire PC with no bluescreen in the past week >-<

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can't seem to find a specific state that it always crashes in, though its usually when a big chunk of loading is happening such a new round start or entering a game

minor portal
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Hey!! So sorry this is happening. Next time it crashes. Can you send over the player.log file? It's under C:/Users/YOUR_USER/AppData/LocalLow/Brainwash Gang/Friends vs Friends

tulip gulch
minor portal
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Thanks a lot!

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@tulip gulch have you, by any chance, recurrent crashes in other Unity games?

tulip gulch
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So far, nope. Haven't had anything like this happen in any other Unity game at all, not even a blue screen or a regular Crash-to-Desktop kind of thing.

mortal wolf
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I'll attempt to send mine over a new player.log file!

lost parrot
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I joined this discord server specifically to see if anyone else has this problem. Im scared of this game bricking my PC now because it has crashed and taken over my entire PC on startup multiple times. To the point where it wont even restart and I have to reset my PSU every single time.

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I was waiting for this game so excited for it but at this point its a refund because I cant risk it bricking my entire PC.

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Cant even kill the task with cmd prompt. PC has to be force restarted

image.png
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Hope this gets addressed within the next 2 weeks or Ill have to refund it because its literally a non-functional product.

mortal wolf
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Attempted the play the game again today, and it had some lag up to boarding the bus.

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After boarding the bus to start a private match between me and the bots - that's when the game crashed. Didn't get to load the level at all.

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I restarted my computer from scratch without having a lot of programs on it, so I'm really lost as to why my entire computer crashes when trying to play this game. 😦

mortal wolf
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This game is completely unplayable for me and it's been like this since trying it out Day One of the beta. It's unplayable for me now, and I have no choice but to uninstall the game for good unless there's a complete fix for it.

minor portal
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Hey @mortal wolf @tulip gulch @lost parrot , we're still investigating this issue, and we're discarding possible causes. Could you tell me if you have FvF installed in a HDD? Or is it in a SSD?

lost parrot
minor portal
lost parrot
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I do

minor portal
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Which type? Can you try installing the game on that drive and see if it still crashes?

lost parrot
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I have both an SSD and an HDD

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Which one would you prefer I try?

minor portal
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Try the SSD first

lost parrot
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Will let you know

minor portal
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Thanks a lot! And sorry for the trouble

lost parrot
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How did yall get your file compression so good for the install?

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My DL's are like 500-600 Mb and the game is 6.5 gigs

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Was able to successfully play 2 1v1's. No longer crashing on start and taking over my whole system and forcing reboots.

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Was able to change characters. Play 1v1's on multiple stages. Edit settings just fine

minor portal
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so glad to hear it! Please, let me know if it crashes again and under which conditions

mortal wolf
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I currently don’t own an HDD but I can try installing it on my computer rather than the HDD

minor portal
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If it does indeed work, I think we can narrow down the cause. Don't know if it'll make it easier to fix, but at least we'll have some workarounds to try make it work when other people encounter the same issue

tulip gulch
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I have mine installed on an SSD. I can try the HDD though?

tulip gulch
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Update: After moving the install to my HDD, I was able to play several games with no crash.

Nevermind, it happened again. Though it took much longer now. Right before the shutdown, there's a brief moment of lag. Was able to play multiple rounds of 1v1 earlier today, and just now while doing some 2v2's it crashed.

tulip gulch
mortal wolf
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Currently installed on my computer and just went through a quick match. Haven't crashed yet and there's some lag.

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Okay, it seems to have not crashed yet, now to figure out how I can eliminate lag on my end.

mortal wolf
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Just came back from the crash.

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I was in the middle of a third 1v1 and before I could start the match, that's when my computer when down. Here's the latest one.

minor portal
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@mortal wolf @tulip gulch do you have Radeon Software turned on while playing? if so, can you try turning it off?

tulip gulch
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Can try, yeah.

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Still crashes with the Radeon Adrenaline software turned off.

mortal wolf
tulip gulch
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Still having the crashes for me, little hesitant to test anymore as that would put me past the window where I would be able to refund the game if it's unable to be fixed. Which, I don't want to do because what I've been able to play is extremely fun! I just don't like the risk to my PC with it shutting off like it is xD

latent thicket
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Any updates about this?

full totem
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rigby

torn remnant
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Just got the game but it's crashing like 2/3 matches lol

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Get a short loading bar window that pops up and then it crashes

latent thicket
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Does it shut down your computer completely too?

minor portal
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Hey! Sorry but no updates yet unfortunately. We're still looking at it!

mortal wolf
leaden hill
tulip gulch
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I'm guessing no updates yet?

latent thicket
tulip gulch
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Not even just game breaking. Shutdowns like that can be damaging to actual hardware and to data. I recognise it's probably a difficult bug to diagnose and so progress is slow on it - but still :/

latent thicket
wind halo
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Hi, just came back to say after repeatedly freezing whilst playing for a week, I gave up on the game; and then a week later, my PC’s memory completely gave out and stuck my PC in an unfixable BIOS loop.

I’m not going to claim that FvF was the sole cause of this (or even if it was the cause at all) but considering forced shutdowns can and do damage hardware… :/

mortal wolf
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You're not wrong in that forced shutdowns can cause something to break down in the long run.

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After installing the game, I had a lot of problems with stuttering in other games.

latent thicket
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Currently adding a warning about this at the beginning of my Steam review. Thanks for the heads up.

wind halo
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I really want to try playing it again when my PC is all set up and working, but I’m honestly not sure if I should risk it atp…

mortal wolf
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JEEZ, I’m sorry to hear that your PC got taken down by that

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Tbh with this, I wouldn’t even try attempting to run the game at all if it’s that bad

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Too many frequent crashes could end up messing with other files

wind halo
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Yeah, that’s true :(

My new parts are actually coming tomorrow so I’m gonna have to try and recover my files from the old SSD, hopefully it goes well and I can move past this experience LMAO

wind halo
latent thicket
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As a fellow software developer for a living, I'm surprised the devs still have not posted a server-wide warning, especially since we now have direct confirmation that the game can literally affect your hardware.

latent thicket
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Bump. This is important.

mortal wolf
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And that was after reformatting both comp and SSD to see if anything was wrong with it.

mortal wolf
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Supporting the game just seems useless at this point.

wind halo
tiny schooner
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idk about overheated but you can just kill sections of your ram chips with constant crashes like that

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i find it wild that there's no word on this so far, i understand if they just can't fix it, but at least they should have a warning and offer refunds to anyone who gets these crashes

latent thicket
mortal wolf
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I got an update from Steam Support, thankfully.

mortal wolf
# tiny schooner idk about overheated but you can just kill sections of your ram chips with const...

That's what happened to my computer each time that it crashed. Checking the temps with MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner Statistics Server, it was much higher than most of the resource-intensive games I have on my laptop.

I wish they had a warning for this, too. I know the Steam support page lists out all the specs but I was completely caught offguard by the visuals. I tended to associate low poly games with needing less resources than high poly ones, but this definitely changed my perspective on it entirely when I felt that it was running super hot including my SSD.

mortal wolf
# tiny schooner i find it wild that there's no word on this so far, i understand if they just ca...

Steam Support will give you a refund, but you can't use the typical responses like, "Having technical issues/game is not what I expected."

How I wrote my refund request was like this:

  • Select my issue isn't listed
  • Write out that the devs were super silent after multiple players in the Discord listed out the same issue including yourself. Mention how long you waited for a response, especially if your waiting window went past the 14 days of issuing a refund. It doesn't have to be a sob story, just write out the cold facts and Steam Support should get back to you.

I got my refund, and my friends also asked me to refund their copies as well - so I started initiating the process for them as well.

tiny schooner
mortal wolf
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I didn't see any huge announcements about the beta they were having including wishlisting them, but I didn't see that I missed the Februray beta until AFTER the game was announced to release months after.

tiny schooner
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from my group of friends the person that it was happening to has significantly beefier hardware than i do, and the game doesn't push my computer at all, I could feasibly run multiple instances

so its got to be a bug definitely

mortal wolf
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I did see that my friends' beefier software was running it better but there was some slight lag here and there.

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One was on a laptop, and the others' on PC but for that to happen to both them... huge yikes.

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It's something you'd expect while they're in the beta zone, or at least a slight glitch in the final mode.

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Love the game and all, but the complete silence within this thread and the other previous threads is deafening from the devs.

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This is the only response we've gotten from a dev after finding the FAQ thread.

wind halo
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I would say "if FvF crashes and you cannot exit to desktop without a hard restart, it's advisible to cease playing immedietely as contined forced restarts can cause permanent hardware damage." is more than fair

fresh tundra
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I would say it is definitely not that optimized as it could be, as im barely getting 200fps on my 3070, which shouldn't be that much of a problem for how small the game actually is. Even on the lowest settings I barely get to 240fps

Though I never experience the crashing issues, as it could be because I'm mainly playing this game on Linux.

And some games can behave differently based on the operating system.

I have 2 computers, and my 3070 is on my windows computer.

fresh tundra
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But yeah the game doesn't run that well as it should on linux either. But i chop it up to the game not being that well optimized.

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I haven't experienced any game breaking bugs or crashes on linux, but it doesn't run that well as it should.

As both linux and windows i don't get that many frames from such a small game.

tulip gulch
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Anyone managed to fix this yet for themselves?

fleet minnow
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Hi! is this still happening?

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i mean it's happening to me, anyone got a solution or something

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it crashes and the last 2s of audio gets stuck

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wont let me close the game

tiny schooner
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the fact this never got fixed really soured the game